During the Second World War it was generally believed by Hitler’s enemies that he had only one testicle. I confess that I believed it. We will never know, I suppose, who started that rumor. But Russians who took possession of Hitler’s charred remains in Berlin counted his testicles, and he had two of them. It is also not true that the Nazis made soap and candles of fat rendered from the corpses of concentration-camp victims. I myself helped to spread that story in a novel, Mother Night, and have received enough letters from dispassionate fact-gatherers to persuade me that I had been
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